Authorities sent an aircraft carrier and other Navy ships to the Florida Keys to help with search-and-rescue operations Monday as a flyover of the hurricane-battered islands yielded what the governor said were scenes of devastation. During its rainy, windy run up the full 400-mile length of Florida, Irma swamped homes, uprooted trees, flooded streets, snapped miles of power lines and toppled construction cranes. One death in Florida, that of a man killed in an auto accident in the Keys during the storm, was blamed on Irma. The Keys felt Irma's full fury when it came ashore as a Category 4 storm with 130 mph (209 kph) winds. "The hurricane winds lashed the shutters violently, throughout the night," he wrote in a text message, "making sleep impossible."

Source: ABC News September 11, 2017 06:07 UTC